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From NYRB, the captive aliens who remain our shame: Annette Gordon-Reed reviewsThe Common Cause: Creating Race and Nation in the American Revolution by Robert Parkinson. An American “redemption”? Trumpism fits a pattern of backlash against social progress. Scott McLemee interviews Bill V. Mullen, author of W. E. B. Du Bois: Revolutionary Across the Color Line. Civil rights deja vu, only worse: Under George W. Bush, Republicans set about undermining the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department — expect a more devastating assault on the division under Trump. Ben Carson, Donald Trump's pick for head of Housing and Urban Development, has called federal attempts to desegregate neighborhoods “social engineering".

From Teen Vogue, Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago made over $420,000 selling access to the president-elect on New Year's Eve. From Vanity Fair, how Donald Trump beat Palm Beach society and won the fight for Mar-a-Lago. The mythmaker: Thirteen years ago, reality TV producer Mark Burnett created “The Apprentice” — and invented Donald Trump as we know him. Donald Trump’s empathy chip is missing, and that’s a problem. Your political correctness is showing, conservatives: Trump and co. are just as thin-skinned and immature as the caricature they’ve successfully painted of the Left. He’s making a list: Trump is more paranoid and dangerous than Nixon. Trump’s inability to tolerate critics may be his biggest problem. The real Latin American invasion: Why has so comparatively little attention been given to the remarkable extent to which the Trump phenomenon appears to represent the development of a Norteamericano version of a classic Latin American caudillo?